A 5-year-old child was hospitalized Wednesday night after being struck by a car while attempting to cross the street in Glenmont, with the child's injuries described as non-life-threatening. Emergency responders were called to the 2200 block of Randolph Road near Glenmont Circle, and the incident remains under investigation.
The crash was first reported by DC News Now, which said Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Pete Piringer confirmed that responders were called to reports of a pedestrian crash in the area. According to the outlet's reporting, the five-year-old was hospitalized after being struck by a car, and the child's injuries were classified as non-life-threatening. The outlet, citing an MCFRS post, said the response centered on Randolph Road near Glenmont Circle, and that the matter remains under investigation per MCFRS.
A Stretch Of Road With A Troubled History
This isn't the first time that stretch of Randolph Road has drawn scrutiny. A previous Montgomery County Police release described a 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan striking a pedestrian, identified as Roger Odin Martinez-Mejia, 24, at the intersection of Randolph Road and Glenmont Circle while the vehicle was traveling eastbound, according to Montgomery County Police. The corridor has also been the subject of multiple pedestrian-safety reviews over the years, including a fall 2010 pedestrian road safety audit conducted on Randolph Road between Selfridge Road and Colie Drive in the Wheaton-Glenmont area, per the Montgomery County Department of Transportation.
A separate 2012 safety-audit project covering Georgia Avenue and Randolph Road noted that the area encompassed two of the county's designated High Incident Areas for pedestrian-related crashes, according to the Montgomery County Department of Transportation. The county has since moved forward with a dedicated Randolph Road Safety Improvement Project, intended to reduce crash frequency and severity for pedestrians, bicyclists and other road users along a 1.3-mile segment between Connecticut Avenue and Georgia Avenue, the department says.
Not An Isolated Incident In The County
The Glenmont crash comes roughly a year after a different child pedestrian crash elsewhere in Montgomery County, near Veirs Mill Road and Connecticut Avenue, where a child was also transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, DC News Now reported at the time. That earlier incident, which occurred at a different location and should not be conflated with Wednesday's crash in Glenmont, saw crews respond to the scene at 6:15 p.m., according to the outlet's reporting.
Montgomery County maintains a non-motorist collision dataset tracking pedestrians and cyclists involved in traffic collisions on county and local roadways, compiled from law-enforcement crash reports, according to the Montgomery County Open Data Portal. A related Vision Zero document noted that 85 non-motorists across 77 crash reports were later determined, after review, not to have actually been non-motorists, per Montgomery County Vision Zero's own data review.
No further details about the driver, the exact timing of the crash, or the child's condition beyond the non-life-threatening designation have been released. As MCFRS continues its investigation into Wednesday's crash, the 2200 block of Randolph Road near Glenmont Circle remains the focus of county efforts to address pedestrian safety concerns that have lingered in the area for more than a decade.
